- Elections of all the Members of the Managing Committee shall be held once in 2 (two) years.
- No Office Bearer of the Managing Committee can continue to be an office bearer of the Managing Committee for more than five terms with not more than two terms consecutively.
- Similarly only one member from a family can be a member of the Managing Committee and /or Board of Trustees.
- Procedure for election of member of the Managing Committee :
- Election of the members of the managing Committee shall be held every two years.
- Not less than 90 days before expiry of term of the existing Managing Committee, the Secretary will scrutinize the register of Members belonging to various classes and ensure that the entries therein are correct and complete.
- Not less than 90 days before expiry of the term of the existing Managing Committee, the Secretary shall report to the Managing Committee, about verification of the register of members' along with proposal for election of the next Managing Committee.
- Not less than 90 days before expiry of the term of the existing Managing Committee the said Committee shall prepare election program including
- Appointment of Election Officer, who shall be a member of the ASSOCIATION and not desirous of proposing, seconding and contesting.
- The Election Officer would be elected in the AGM one year before the Managing Committee gets dissolved.
- The election officer shall have the powers and responsibility to conduct the elections.
- Publication of list of members on the notice board in the registered office of the ASSOCIATION.
- Calling for nominations.
- Date, time and place for voting etc.
- The Election program shall formally be notified by the Election Officer.
- Voting shall be by raising of hands or by secret ballot as the case may be. The date of voting shall synchronize with the date of the Annual General Meeting or be within a week after the elections.
- The Election Officer will draw program accordingly so that his report including election results can be placed before the Annual General Meeting.
- The Election Officer would after the elections invite the elected members and President of the Managing Committee to take office. He would also get all the elected members of the Managing Committee including the President to sign a Code of Conduct which would guide their actions during their term.
- The outgoing Managing Committee would have the responsibility to complete all accounting procedures and finalize the accounts within the date of remission of office. They would need to handover all the accounts, ledgers, bank accounts and cash in hand to the Treasurer of the new committee on the date of the change of guard.
- Additionally the outgoing Managing Committee would have the responsibility to get the accounts audited within the next three months after remitting of office.
- If after two years of the term of the Managing Committee the new committee is not elected, the Board of Trustees would create a Care Taker Committee (CTC) consisting of three members from among the life members with no member included from the outgoing Managing Committee.
- The CTC would finalize and close the annual accounts of the Association and arrange to hold the election in the next three months.
- The Earlier Managing Committee members have the responsibility to the CTC to clear all administrative and accounting tasks / problems and help to clear the accounts in the next three months.
- The CTC would not have any financial decision making capacity other than carrying out routine expenditure which is cleared and approved by the Board of Trustees.
COOPTION TO FILL UP VACANT POSTS
In the event of vacancy in the Managing Committee caused on account of the death, resignation, disqualification, or removal of any member of the Managing Committee such vacancy may be filled may fill in such vacancies by cooption on the Managing Committee of any other members, eligible to be on the Managing Committee, in spite of the fact whether there is a quorum or not. However such a cooption would need to be ratified by the Board of Trustees within one month.